Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-17

erroneous as 10 its conclusions. II IA q
maishallinx OF General Mahone's
methods aud an oxemplitcation OF his
policy TO either rule or ruin. Wc be-
licvc the chairman of the State Commit
tee is IL, 900 10 10000 weaker thar his
party, and we further believe that every
congressional district in the State would
return a Democratic member rs against
distinctly announced Malone csndi-
date in each.
There was absolutely no excuse or
justification for this malignant screed,
called an address" except to palliate
tho failures OF the present chairman and
present him as the Republican party, to
question whose infallibility is to be de-
noupced rs treason. Bourbonism,
80 called Republicans" and like cpl
thets. Further, the tenn OF the present
National Committee expires with the
meeting OF the next national conven-
tion, aud the present Republican man
agement in Virginia will expire With the
assembling of the next State conven-
ton. The campaign will not open until
new committees, national and State,
arc appointed, and consequently there
could be no rational excuse for the
delegation in issuing the "address.
We are therefore forced TO the conclu.
sion that the purpose wasto bolster mp
the incompatible leader, Malone, and
furnish the committee with a specimen
of tho ways in which he disciplines his
forces. "crusbcs out Offenders against
bis supreme imperial will. and give thcm
an idea, unwittingIy, why Virginia is
still under Democratic control, when
there are between $4,000 and 10000 Re-
publican majority in the State. The
committee. no doubt, after reading the
"aldress understood the situation
thoroughly in Virginia and the condi-
tons Dnd influences to which ii is asked
to lend "moral and neutrality-suspicious..
IL understands that General Malone
has to be accepted as the embodi-
mont Of the Republican party in Vir-
ginia--that his ambitions are to he re-
earled as the object and his ways the
standard of Republican orthodoxy-that
he is the law aud tho prophet, and that
there is mono other. To donht these as
sumptiops is to invoke bull OF excOm.
munication aud n decree Of treason from
which there can be no appeal. There are
those, however, who are not SO easily
disposed of, and who consider that they
have rights in the party as well as others.
They propose to assert those rlghts--to
stand to the principles of the party, and
labor for its disenthralment from such
selfish and unwise influences. They
are not willing TO have Their party
devotion and conviction measured by
his standard, or to be driven from its
support by his pctulant Tantings and
rabd imprccations. Not only does the
National Committee understand General
Malone from the nature OF this "nd-
dress, but Republican senators and Re
publican members OF Congress, and
leading Republicans out of Congress,
and those who have served in high de-
partmental positions under Republican
administration understand him as we'll
This "nddress" only emphasizes what
they know, and will impress them with
the necessity, as it impresses Virginia
Republicans, of change in the manage
ment of the party TO bring to its sup
port all those who agree with its prlncl.
pies but some of whom have refused to
become identified with the organization
because of his selfish, arbitrary rule.
We close with the following defiance
$50 far as the Republicans the 'ad-
dres assails, 10y implication, are con-
cerned, they need no defence before the
Republican party of Virginia or the Re-
publican National Committee. They are
equally indifferent to the favor or the
frown of the chairman or those who
speak for him."